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The Sacred (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Is Education a Life Project?

The University of Chicago Agnes is giving the aims of education talk in a week or so. The sacred, as we've been discussing, comes with good things and comes with bad things,. It prevents you from evaluating what you're doing. But it's precisely that. And the sacred rule makes for these binary distinctions. So if you say, well, why don't you take an internship? That's an education too. You might resist, no, that doesn't count as education.You want to make this sharp binary distinction for what counts as education and what doesn't. Right.

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